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    An article you recently created, Girish Rao Hatwar, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) In addition, there appears to be a WP:UPE or WP:COI conflict. Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, and have addressed the UPE/COI issue, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. As per WP policy, please do not move into mainspace yourself. Onel5969 TT me 12:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

    Hello onel5969, I am really perplexed on how you decided the article that I wrote is
    • Not suitable as written to remain published?
    • It has 10 references, but you have decided more citations needed. May I know on what basis you decided so?
    • How you decided there is a WP:COI conflict? The person is not a friend, family member, employee/employer of me. I don't have any business dealings with him. How did you arrive at this conclusion?
    • How did you arrive at the conclusion that the references provided are not verifiable? All references are from authentic sources. They are all well-known journals, newspapers and websites.

    Please enlighten me.--Pavanaja (talk) 15:19, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

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    @Pavanaja and Alexandermcnabb: Pavanaja, you wrote on Talk:Seven Wonders of Karnataka that "This page is not unambiguously promotional, because it is a translation of Kannada article." Did you mean that this was a translation from the Kannada language Kannada Wikipedia? If that's the case, could you possibly link that kn.wp article? --Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
    I had linked the Kannada Wikipedia article. The Wikidata link also has been removed now.--Pavanaja (talk) 12:39, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply


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